Niko

Thanks for sharing!

my three impulses for answering the original question were: 1) Eastern Man Alone, mentioned early on 2) Jacques Coursil (e.g. the BYGs), not yet mentioned as far as I can see 3) some Japanese stuff like Togashi's Guild for Human Music or Speed and Space... maybe they're slightly more low key and slightly less driven, but they have that folkish quality and I also hear similarities in the role of the drummer

Oh, didn't he ramble the autobiography of trumpeter Lee Collins, used but in good shape, even including the Flexi-Disc with an additional track from "A Night at the Victory Club"... Thought I'd show my daughter what a used bookstore looks like, allegedly the biggest English-language one on the continent no less, and take the briefest of looks at the row of jazz books... where this one stood, had been looking for it for a while without high expectations or high effort... it's a very enjoyable inside view on a live in early jazz from New Orleans to Chicago in the form of an endless stream of anecdotes

no, that must be this here https://www.discogs.com/release/9872965-Big-Band-Of-Bob-Florence-Bongos-Reeds-Brass

My internet browser made it look as if "Bob Florence died much too early. I am a big band fan and have everything he cut on records" was something you said... I was already thinking, wow, here's another facet of Gheorghe I'd never would have suspected... I guess I am somewhere in the middle, wouldn't call myself a big band fand, but I do have a Bob Florence LP which I am playing now... the album is about 8 weeks older than me, hard to say who has aged better...

Eddie Shu - I only have eyes for Shu

a typo for Steve Schaeffer I'd say after quickly comparing two photos taken at different ages...

have mixed feelings about that record but I really like Ruud Brink

music from where I grew up, Cologne in the 1990s; and I remember that band being advertised here and there back then but my priorities were different... of course, we listened to Tom Waits a lot, and - through carnival - music in the local dialect [which I never learned to speak] was something we played at least once a year [music in proper German I only discovered in my 20s even though that is my native language]... I guess Tom Waits covers in the dialect you grew up with is a type of music for people over 40... which is fine, it sounds glorious once you're there.

I have one of the Bill Henderson albums, Live at the Times, it's an intriguing line-up I thought with her on piano and former Don Ellis sideman Dave Mackay on Fender Rhodes plus bass, drums and, of course, Henderson's singing... haven't played it in a while but remember it as a special album and quite a good one.

Yes... He has some piano trio credentials e.g. with Michel Graillier

the Soul Jazz book must be Bob Porter's book of the same name... (which I started reading but somehow never finished... so I'll wait with this new book until then)

I agree, it was better hidden than usual...

we've been discussing this release for a while now in this thread here: The track list is In 'N Out; We'll Be Together Again; Taking Off; The Believer; Isotope. in there is more information over in that thread

The third record is formally leaderless... So, in particular, there's no attempt whatsoever to market it as a Coltrane record

A good one... I guess that if Coltrane would have said "this record is about spaghetti" and "this record is about rabbits" covers might have looked different... Instead, he said "this record is about myself, where I stand right now" and because that happened every few weeks, and because designers didn't listen to the music...

Yes, indeed - even though you can be sure that the person writing "song" there knew better, probably laughed when they wrote it... In the video title it says "Stück", "piece", which is more conventional language... The accompanying Bild article also mentioned that the musicians were kids themselves (16, 17 and 20 years old) and that the composition consists of a march followed by six short movements

I was in the area as well this afternoon, playing this nice compilation with late 20s recordings I found in my lunch break... Freeman is on 6 of the 16 tracks... (this album is PMC 7072, PMC 7070 was The Beatles with Yellow Submarine...)

in Chris Albertson's *** DB review of Up Above The Rock (15 May 1969 issue), he notes that "Except for a few bars on Dag Nab It (I could almost swear they were played by Clark Terry), the horns are relegated to playing arrangements behind Bryant" (and that's the only time the word "Hiques" appears in Downbeat according to my - far from perfect - computer)

been there, most of those places... Johnny Hodges and Earl Bostic do not sound like modern altoists, do not sound like Cannonball... in Lou Donaldson's case, I'd say the organ really isn't ideal, soundwise... at least in combination with his alto... but from a bebop-tradition point of view, the line is what counts, you could have a harmonica with a gameboy rhythm section and if the phrases match it's pure bop (and no, Charlie Parker never played harmonica over chords provided by a gameboy; and he did have the most amazing sound... didn't play with organs though, or rarely). Stitt I prefer on tenor, especially when there's an organ behind him and I'd guess he plays more tenor on organ records but I don't have the numbers... what made me doubt was, curiously enough, indeed Sonny Cox... that trio sounds just right. imho it's the exception.... same for the Charles Williams group with Don Pullen. Then again: Take Johnny Griffin's Grab This! It's not a record people talk about much, Griffin is not a tenor player people associate with organ... how many organ records with alto can hold up to this comparison? [not many, I say] Most of the classic organ records have tenor, and that happened for a reason.

to my ears, alto just doesn't go together with organ as well as tenor regarding frequencies, sound, pitch, whatever... regarding Coltrane, he did play with Jimmy Smith in 1955, not recorded, and there's also the group pictured here:

the Phil Schaap collection has quite a few tapes with Cumberbatch and the Swing to Bop Quintet... Edgehill (or Edghill, but that's not how they spell it) isn't on those but there is a 1977 gig by Harold Ashby documented on several tapes including this one https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/130454 Ashby (ts) with Ed Lewis (tp) and a rhythm section that looks pretty good on paper, Richard Wynands, John Ore and Arthur Edgehill... edit: just saw that - of course - Dan mentioned those tapes already in the first post...

I don't actively do either but I follow your instagram account - the cats are adorable - so I have some idea... let's just say that she recently recorded a song about one of the presidential candidates in the US and that there's this conflict that got a lot of attention since last October where the two of you don't seem to be in the same camp... Al Levitt, yes, that's a good one, as one of Sean Levitt's biggest fans, I've always wondered about the processes that lead to the family ESP album with Chick Corea...